Cody Wilson, a law student at University of Texas and founder of a nonprofit organization called Defense Distributed, speaks at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas, Monday March 11.

Cody Wilson, a law student at University of Texas and founder of a nonprofit organization called Defense Distributed, speaks at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas, Monday March 11.

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In this Oct. 3, 2012 photo, "Wiki Weapons" project leader Cody Wilson points to his laptop screen displaying an image of a prototype plastic gun on the screen, while holding in his other a weapon he calls "Invivdual Mandate," in Austin, Texas. At least one group, called Defense Distributed, is claiming to have created downloadable weapon parts that can be built using the increasingly popular new-generation of printer that utilizes plastics and other materials to create 3-D objects with moving parts. Wilson says the group last month test fired a semiautomatic AR-15 rifle _ one of the weapon types used in the Connecticut elementary school massacre _ which was built with some key parts created on a 3-D printer. The gun was fired six times before it broke. (AP Photo/Statesman.com, ) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; INTERNET AND TV MUST CREDIT PHOTOGRAPHER AND STATESMAN.COM

In this Oct. 3, 2012 photo, "Wiki Weapons" project leader Cody Wilson points to his laptop screen displaying an image of a prototype plastic gun on the screen, while holding in his other a weapon he calls

Wilson said his newly formed organization, Defense Distributed, believes that everyone should have access to a gun. To that end, he has launched Defcad.org, as a repository for weapons designs. The site includes designs for an AR-15 coupler and grip, a 30-round AR-15 magazine, and a sound moderator, or silencer.

"This isn't the object that we're producing, but the digital file to be freely distributed across the Internet when we're finished," he said in the YouTube video. "Defense Distributed is a project about the preservation of human dignity in world of accelerating inhumanity. It's about the collapse and distinction between digital information and material goods."

He admits that, given current technology, printing a gun is the least effective way of obtaining a firearm, and that it is easier to simply fashion a gun from the contents of any hardware store, The Guardian reported.

Ultimately, Wilson wants to turn Defcad.org into "the world's first unblockable open-source search engine for all 3D printable parts", a Pirate Bay-style archive not only for printable pistols, but for everything from prosthetic limbs to drugs and birth-control devices, according to Guardian.com.